Entertainment: Who still wants to fall in love when there are cheats?

Chapter 175 Unspoken Rules of Film Crews
When she got back to the hotel, it was already past 2 a.m. Zhao Liying, who was originally a little tired and wanted to sleep, suddenly became energetic and even a little excited.

I've never had the chance before, but now it seems like I do!

With a touch of excitement, Zhao Liying felt somewhat out of control, as if something was guiding her body. By the time she came to her senses, she was already standing at the door of Li Boda's room.

Zhao Liying's heart was beating a little fast. She gently placed her small hand on the door and tentatively applied a little pressure—

The next day, Jiang Wenli and Li Xiaoran both looked at Li Boda and Zhao Liying with ambiguous smiles.

Li Boda, thick-skinned as ever, not only showed no embarrassment but also revealed a hint of smugness.

Zhao Liying, on the other hand, blushed and looked shy. She didn't even dare to stay by Li Boda's side any longer. Except when filming, she kept her distance from Li Boda at all other times.

Zhao Liying's self-deceiving behavior made Jiang Wenli and the others laugh non-stop.

However, the three of them were all in the same boat, so they became close on set and seemed to have become good sisters.

Whether it's for meals or anything else, they often get together.

Zhao Liying would often ask Jiang Wenli for advice on acting.

Jiang Wenli was quite generous; whenever she wasn't in a particularly bad mood or it was inconvenient for her, she would give Zhao Liying some pointers.

Under Jiang Wenli's guidance, Zhao Liying's acting skills have indeed improved considerably.

As a result, Li Xiaoran was also influenced by Zhao Liying's actions, and then she also began to follow Zhao Liying's lead and ask Jiang Wenli to guide her acting skills. As a result, her acting skills gradually improved a lot.

In general, the relationships between actors in a typical storyline might not always be that good.

Especially among actresses.

Well, actresses, or women in general, sometimes inevitably have a little bit of scheming or petty plotting in their hearts. Some even have all sorts of dark thoughts and ideas.

Then they would sabotage the filming, deliberately cause trouble on set, or try to win over others and isolate the other party.

Generally, if there's a large difference in billing order, it's not a big deal, since the gap between the two is large and they won't be at odds.

On the contrary, actresses with similar billing, such as the second or third female lead, or even the third or fourth female lead, might try to steal the spotlight during filming.

Sometimes, film crews can be very chaotic, with all sorts of messy things happening, often resulting from actors of similar billing order tearing each other apart.

However, in this film crew, Jiang Wenli, Zhao Liying, and Li Xiaoran had a very harmonious relationship.

On the one hand, Jiang Wenli has a much higher billing than Zhao Liying and Li Xiaoran, which allows her to directly suppress Zhao Liying and Li Xiaoran.

On the other hand, it was also because Li Boda was such a capable man that he could satisfy all three of them, so the three of them got along particularly well.

Sometimes, the three of them would even team up to target Li Boda.

Li Boda was very happy to see this situation.

After all, what men want most is a harmonious harem.

It's much more comfortable to have three beautiful women happily together than to have three people scheming and gossiping in front of you.

When the three important actresses in the crew got along well, the entire crew ran more smoothly and in a more coordinated manner.

It also makes filming much easier.

The filming schedule has been accelerated quite a bit without us even realizing it.

When the director of the film crew saw this, he was full of admiration for Li Boda. He didn't know what to say except to give Li Boda a thumbs up.

Director Ye Weimin was particularly impressed by Li Boda's ability to get the three beautiful women to get along peacefully. Ye Weimin even couldn't help but quietly ask Li Boda how he did it.

Clearly, Ye Weimin also wanted to learn a thing or two from Li Boda.

Li Boda's answer was: "First, you have to be as handsome as me—"

Li Bo had just said "firstly" and immediately put director Ye Weimin at a disadvantage.

Frankly, Ye Weimin had absolutely no confidence in his looks. While he wasn't exactly ugly, he was only average-looking. Compared to Li Boda, who was top-tier even in the entertainment industry, how could Ye Weimin possibly emulate him?
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In this film crew, Li Boda focused wholeheartedly on filming. As for things outside of filming, well, apart from communicating with the three women, he didn't get involved in anything else.

Li Boda didn't specifically follow director Ye Weimin to see how he directed or watch the cinematographer film.

It's not that Li Boda couldn't learn anything by following Ye Weimin.

If Li Boda were willing, he could actually follow in Ye Weimin's footsteps, observe Ye Weimin's actions, and learn some of the director's knowledge and even abilities.

However, this method is ultimately too slow. If Li Boda really wants to learn properly from a director like Ye Weimin, he would need to study seriously for several years before he can graduate and start trying to become a director.

In fact, for most actors who want to switch careers to become directors, learning from a mature and capable director is undoubtedly a very good approach.

Unfortunately, this method was not practical for Li Boda.

Because Li Boda's cheat ability is too strong.

Li Boda doesn't need to follow director Ye Weimin around to learn. He just needs to do his best in filming this scene, and the better he plays the role of the director in this film, the more feedback he will receive, and the stronger his ability as a director will become.

So Li Boda was really focused on filming, and single-mindedly thinking about how to portray the character better and more brilliantly.

At the same time, he also needs to try his best to show the character's strong ability and talent as a director during filming.

Wang Jie was a little confused by Li Boda's behavior. After all, she knew that Li Boda wanted to be a director. If he wanted to be a director, shouldn't he learn from other directors as much as possible when making films? That way, when he actually became a director, he could direct movies better.

However, since Li Boda was Sister Wang's boss, Sister Wang didn't dare to tell Li Boda what to do.

Moreover, Sister Wang didn't have much energy to devote to Li Boda.

The main problem is that Sister Wang has been working incredibly hard lately; she's been so busy she just can't stop.

While Li Boda focused solely on filming and didn't interfere with other aspects of the production, Sister Wang, as the film's producer, had to take on the responsibilities.

She gets involved in almost everything on set.

For example, regarding the boxed meals ordered by the film crew, although it wasn't Sister Wang who made the arrangements, she would still check with the restaurant to find out about the situation. She would also frequently check the boxed meals in the film crew's meals and compare them with those of other film crews or other individuals to see if the standards of the boxed meals met the standards for the film crew's payment.

For example, the boxed lunches for extras cost five yuan each. Normally, these boxed lunches include rice, vegetables, and meat.

That's right, a five-yuan boxed lunch does have meat in it. After all, it's only 08, and prices are cheap. How could a five-yuan boxed lunch not have meat?

However, after checking, Sister Wang discovered that the meal standards were incorrect. What to do? She went to the person in charge of this aspect in the production crew, and concluded that the person in charge had definitely taken a kickback—no, it was more likely that the person in charge had lowered the meal standards. The person in charge might have directly ordered a three-yuan meal from a restaurant and pocketed two yuan for themselves.

Therefore, Sister Wang needs to talk to the other party.

The reason they didn't fire the other person directly was mainly because of the matter of the crew ordering boxed meals. Almost all film crews do the same thing: the person in charge lowers the meal ordering standards.

Besides the boxed lunches, there were also props, costumes, and even lighting, etc.

For example, a very ordinary light bulb costs only 50 cents.

But what Sister Wang saw on the bill was the price of the light bulb: five hundred! Five hundred yuan for a single light bulb.

Five hundred yuan doesn't sound like much, right?

However, the price difference was increased by a thousand times!
A thousand times!

The price difference for a single light bulb is a thousand times, but the production team directly reported one hundred light bulbs, which would only amount to 50,000 yuan, while the actual cost was only 50 yuan.

When Sister Wang saw this number, she almost fainted.

However, in this situation, Sister Wang needs to remain calm; she absolutely must remain calm.

Because every department and every step of the process does it this way.

Some people reported more money, and some reported less money.

This is an unspoken rule: if you really make all the rules and regulations of the production crew very clear, and don't let them get any kickbacks, then the production crew will almost certainly have a hard time staying afloat.

We do the same thing in other production crews and make money, but you won't let us. So we'll just quit, or we'll deal with it passively and not work hard. We have plenty of ways to trip you up.

Or to put it another way, when we're working, we work seriously, but we don't work overtime!

You pay celebrities high salaries, so they can work overtime, but our salaries aren't high, and you don't even let us have a little extra income. So we refuse to work overtime, because working overtime is illegal in itself.

While other film crews often work overtime, they offer us perks, which we consider as overtime pay. But you don't offer us perks, so we refuse to work overtime. Since your contract doesn't include overtime, our refusal to work overtime isn't a violation or a breach of contract.

You know, working overtime is the norm when filming a movie. If you don't work overtime, the movie can't be filmed.

So what Sister Wang has to do is leave some money for the crew, but she has to control the amount of money.

I'll give you some oil, but I definitely won't let you eat until your mouth is dripping with grease.

How do you control the amount of profit? How much should be left for the crew? These are all important questions that require careful study.

Because of this, Sister Wang has lost a lot of hair.

(End of this chapter)